Direct Generation – Background and Strategy
Wave Energy Scotland Ltd
A summary of the opportunities afforded by direct distributed, flexible materials in wave energy, and what WES is doing to further investigate their potential.
Direct Generation
This competition is investigating conceptual approaches to integrate and apply Direct Generation technologies as part of wave energy converter systems.
Academic Research - Direct Generation
Overview of two SuperGen FlexFund projects supported by WES, an ongoing PhD into electromechanical materials, and how WES is engaging with other projects and programmes.
Concept Design Competition: EBB:FLOW
4c Engineering Ltd
This project focussed on exploiting the properties of dielectric fluid generation (DFG) cells within a promising novel WEC design.
Concept Design Competition: AWS
AWS Ocean Energy Ltd
This project performed a thorough literature review to identify the necessary background information for concept design generation and subsequent down-selection of technologies.
Concept Design Competition: University of Southampton
University of Southampton
This project team applied its multidisciplinary expertise in maritime engineering, robotics, manufacturing, control, and wave energy to CFD and testing to refine and optimise the proposed concepts.
Concept Design Competition: TTI
TTI Marine Renewables Ltd
This project applied TRIZ to down-select ideas, which could then be explored by the multidisciplinary team in more detail.
Concept Design Competition: WaveX
WaveX
This project developed a conceptual approach which would have the ability to use both DEG and DFGs effectively.